What are the laws relating to drug use?
In Australia, there are laws governing the manufacture, possession, distribution and use of drugs, both legal and illegal. There are four main types of offences relating to illegal drug use in Australia such as: • Use – smoking, inhaling fumes, injecting, ingesting. • Possession – the most common offence and means having control or custody of a drug. • Cultivation – is the act of sowing, planting, growing, tending, nurturing or harvesting a narcotic plant – any of these constitute the offence of cultivation. • Trafficking – is a very serious offence and includes preparation of a drug of dependence for trafficking, manufacturing a drug of dependence, or selling, exchanging, agreeing to sell, or offering for sale, or having in possession for sale, a drug of dependence.
